Problem-Solving Contracts in Croydon

Problem Solving
South London > Croydon

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon with a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 27 40
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 -26
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 14 7 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 11.29% 4.46% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.76% 4.67% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 1
10th Percentile £376 £309 -
25th Percentile £397 £498 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% +27.78% -28.57%
75th Percentile £572 £669 £465
90th Percentile £656 £713 -
South London median daily rate £425 £497 £488
% change year-on-year -14.54% +2.01% -14.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £17.00 - -
25th Percentile £17.19 - -
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
75th Percentile £25.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £23.50 £62.68 £46.17
% change year-on-year -62.51% +35.76% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Croydon

Problem-Solving is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 119 150 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 95.97% 95.54% 93.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 119 137
10th Percentile £377 £450 £413
25th Percentile £425 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £630 £725 £700
South London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £16.64 - -
25th Percentile £17.06 - -
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
75th Percentile £25.25 - -
90th Percentile £30.23 - -
South London median hourly rate £23.50 £50.42 £44.31
% change year-on-year -53.39% +13.79% -8.31%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Croydon

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Croydon.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Croydon

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Croydon over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Croydon

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Croydon.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Croydon

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.14%) OpenStack
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Route 53
2 2 (14.29%) Serverless
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.14%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DHCP
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) LAN
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
1 1 (7.14%) Skype
1 1 (7.14%) SMTP
1 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
1 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (64.29%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Military
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Field Engineer
1 8 (57.14%) Field Service Engineer
1 8 (57.14%) IT Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) .NET Developer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Full Stack Java Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Service Desk Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (7.14%) Kafka
1 1 (7.14%) Mustache
1 1 (7.14%) Node.js
1 1 (7.14%) React
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) Spring
1 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
1 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (7.14%) PKI
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
2 1 (7.14%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Break/Fix
1 8 (57.14%) Customer Service
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 2 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (14.29%) Microservices
4 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Scrum
5 1 (7.14%) Change Management
5 1 (7.14%) Configuration Management
5 1 (7.14%) CRM
5 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (7.14%) ITIL
5 1 (7.14%) ITSM
5 1 (7.14%) PRINCE2
5 1 (7.14%) Project Management
5 1 (7.14%) Service Management
5 1 (7.14%) Statistical Analysis
5 1 (7.14%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Java
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 2 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Grafana
2 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (7.14%) Ansible
3 1 (7.14%) OPNET
3 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
3 1 (7.14%) SCCM
3 1 (7.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Remedy
2 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds
2 1 (7.14%) VMware